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proaction

proaction noun: proactive behavior or influence.

Noun

proaction (countable and uncountable, plural proactions)

  1. Proactive behavior or influence.
    • However, there are also numerous actions supervisors can take in order to encourage intern proaction.2013, Daniel S. Newman, Demystifying the School Psychology Internship, →ISBN
    • Those twenty-two that have been classified as transformational leaders all showed evidence of high levels of inspiration, integrity, selflessness, scholarship, and proaction.2014, Michael S. DeVivo, Leadership in American Academic Geography, →ISBN

Examples of proaction in a sentence

  • The goal of this part of the treatment involves the client's ability to use mindful emotion regulation skills that facilitate taking proactions that reflect a meaningful and rewarding life path.2017, Alessandro Grecucci, Remo Job, Jon J. Frederickson, Advances in Emotion Regulation: From Neuroscience to Psychotherapy, →ISBN:
  • Klinman (1964) reported much greater proaction for "component testing" designs than for problems in which the redundant training stimuli and test-trial stimuli were identical.2017, Donald K. Routh, The Experimental Psychology of Mental Retardation, →ISBN, page 111:

Forms of proaction

pluralproactions

Questions about proaction

What does proaction mean?
Proaction means proactive behavior or influence.
How do you use proaction in a sentence?
The goal of this part of the treatment involves the client's ability to use mindful emotion regulation skills that facilitate taking proactions that reflect a meaningful and rewarding life path.
What part of speech is proaction?
Proaction is a noun.
What is the plural of proaction?
The plural of proaction is proactions.

Words near proaction in the dictionary

  1. proacrosomes
  2. proacrosomic
  3. proact
  4. proacted
  5. proacting
  6. proaction
  7. proactions
  8. proactive
  9. proactively
  10. proactiveness
  11. proactivism

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